SPD4459 | The Expendables| Central & Western District @香港大學

香港大學，簡稱港大（英語：The University of Hong Kong，縮寫 HKU），是一所位於香港島薄扶林的公立研究型大學。該校創立於1911年殖民地時期，並於翌年正式辦學，是香港第一所高等教育機構。1887年成立的香港華人西醫書院成為其醫學院，與文學及工程同為其創校學院。後來的日佔時期曾對大學的運作造成了很大的干擾。二次大戰後，學校則繼續發展，多個新部門及學院也相繼落成。

The University of Hong Kong (informally known as HKU or Hong Kong University) is a public research university located in Pokfulam, Hong Kong, founded in 1911 during the British Colonial era. It is the oldesttertiary institution in Hong Kong, originally established in order to compete with other Great Powers that had opened higher learning institutions in China at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, established in 1887, evolved to be the medical faculty, one of its first three faculties alongside Arts and Engineering. Academic life at the university was disrupted by the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong; however, following the end of the Second World War, the university underwent expansion with the founding of further departments and faculties.

港大現共有十大學術學院，創校以來一直採用英文教學，並以法律學、心理學、人文政治及生物醫學見長。港大亦為全球第一個成功鑑定及上報冠狀病毒（非典型肺炎病原體）的研究單位。該校亦培養了法、政、自然科學、工程及醫學等各界的著名人士。

香港大學與其他當地高校一樣，以香港特別行政區的特首作其校監，另設校長一職。校方現有10所學院：醫學、法律、牙醫學、建築、理學、文學、經濟及工商管理、教育學、工程學及社會科學學院，下設多個學系及部門，提供不同的本科及研究生課程。為更好處理及協調各學院的研究課程及有關行政工作，大學特設一所研究學院。另有多所研究中心。大學還有兩所附屬教育機構：香港大學專業進修學院及明德學院，提供持續進修及自資學位課程。

The Council is the governing body of the University, and is responsible for the management of financial and human resources of the University and for the University's future developments. The Council comprises University members (both staff and students) and lay members (i.e. persons who are not employees or students of the University), with a ratio of lay to university members of 2:1 Members are serving on the Council as trustees in their personal capacity. The Court is a large overseeing and legislative body comprising University and lay members, representing the wider interests of the communities served by the University. It has the power to make, repeal and amend statutes. The Senate is the principal academic authority of the University, responsible for all academic matters and welfare of students. Its 50 members are mainly academic staff while there are also student representatives.

在香港中文大學成立之前，港大為香港唯一一所大學。2009年香港特別行政區政府15位司長及局長中，有11位出身自香港大學，可見香港大學學生在政府內部佔有一定地位，甚至有「港大幫」之說。根據港大年報，2009年政府新聘用的學位職系公務員當中有34.1％是香港大學應屆畢業生，自2006年起為全港各大專院校中最高者。在2012年全年新聘政務主任職位當中，香港大學應屆畢業生佔83.3％（即每六人當中有五人肆業自香港大學），若包括過往各屆畢業生亦佔75.0％（即每四人當中有三人肆業自香港大學）。

HKU has been consistently viewed as one of the territory's top 3 higher learning institutions by various league tables. In particular, it had been regarded as the best Asian university by the QS World University Rankings for 3 consecutive years from 2010/11 to 2012/13, and was also ranked Asian No. 1 by THE World University Rankings in 2010-11. It came 43rd in Times World Reputation Rankings (2014), the most reputable in the territory as in HKU Public Opinion Programme survey (2012), Its strength in individual disciplines ranked by the above organizations can be seen via the list of subject rankings of Hong Kong tertiary institutions. The university is also ranked 42nd in the world by US News.

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